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" When I was young I lost everything. "

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" Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. "

" I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. "

" In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. "

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

" It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. "

" No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. "

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

" I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. "

" Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. "

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. "

" Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. "

" Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. "

" Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. "

" I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. "

" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

" I write to understand as much as to be understood. "

" I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. "

" After all, God is God because he remembers. "

" Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. "

" Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. "

" My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. "

" Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. "

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